Creator: Anthony Hyne
Publication date: 1995-01-01
Dewey code: 940.481410222
Price: $37.95
Review David Jones: A Fusilier at the Front : His Record of the Great War in Word and Image / Dufour Editions:
Creator: Robert C. Lautman
Publication date: 1987-10-09
Dewey code: 720
Price: $49.95
Review Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect: Recent Work/1988-1993 / American Institute of Architects Press:
Publication date: 2007-01
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $238.99
Review Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field / Gacl:
Publication date: 1990-03-15
Review The Little Clown / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Reg Varney describes growing up in the East End of London during the 1920s and 1930s and the emergence of his musical talent. Having gone away to a convalescent home to recover from the effects of pneumonia, Reg returned home able to play the piano as well as his father. He soon supplemented his earnings as a messenger boy for Cable and Wireless by playing the circuit of Men's Clubs of the East End and Essex. The author previously starred in "The Rag Trade" and "On The Buses".
Publication date: 2007-09-21
Dewey code: 860.9001
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Price: $235.00
Review Dictionary of Literary Biography: Castilian Writers, 1200-1400 / Gale Group:
Publication date: 1981-04-23
Dewey code: 822.33
Price: $98.00
Review William Shakespeare: Records and Images / Oxford University Press, USA:
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama,, Motion ... (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series) / Gale Cengage:
Authors
- Carol Podedworny
- Bob Boyer
- Daphne Odjig
Publication date: 2001-06-15
Dewey code: 759.11
Price: $29.95
Review Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 / Key Porter Books:Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000 is a graceful blend of biography, essay, and critique which illuminates the importance of this gifted artist to the Canadian artistic community and provides art lovers with a rare glimpse into the extraordinary heart of this painter. Odjig confronts the themes of the aboriginal experience, her family dynamic, and her spiritual beliefs in her paintings, which are extremely personal. Collectors of her works are awed by her innovative use of traditional aboriginal symbols, which transcend the specific culture from which they come. In the early 1960s, her development of a recognizable "Odjig style" garnered her enough attention to make possible her first solo show in 1967. Odjig's reputation as an artist was growing internationally and her commissioned painting Earth Mother was displayed at EXPO '70 in Japan. Odjig's importance as a Canadian artist is immeasurable. Bob Boyer, a renowned Metis artist and lecturer, absorbingly explores in his preface the place of Native art in the broader spectrum of Canadian culture, in order to provide a more in-depth perspective on Odjig's significance. Pamela Krueger, an award-winning appreciator of Canadian art, discusses in the introduction the course of Odjig's life and career and places her art into its cultural context.
Publication date: 1991-06
Dewey code: 757.0941074
Price: $89.50
Review British Portraits 1660 1960 / Antique Collectors' Club:
Publication date: 1913
Review Reminiscences, impressions & anecdotes; / S. Low, Marston & Co., ld:
Publication date: 2007-08-03
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, ... (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1991-03-14
Dewey code: 780.92
Price: $26.00
Review Berio (Oxford Studies of Composers) / Oxford University Press, USA:Berio is one of the most widely performed and prodigiously productive of postwar composers. This book is nevertheless the first survey in any language of his work as a whole. Commentators on Berio's work have tended to concentrate on those aspects of his music that have strong extra-musical associations such as his use of words, sense of theatre, and interest in linguistics. While incorporating all of these, this account seeks to rectify the balance by focusing on the purely musical basis of Berio's work. Its chapters cover such areas as the basis of his musical language, his involvement with Darmstadt, his work with computers at IRCAM and Tempo Reale, the importance of folk music, and his theatre works.
Authors
- Camille Kingsolver
- Barbara Kingsolver
Dewey code: 809
Price: $26.95
Review Animal, Vegetable, Miracle LP / HarperLuxe:Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U. S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. " Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. [+]Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew. and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air. ".
Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors New Revision Series / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 1996-07-01
Dewey code: 782.421643092
Price: $225.00
Review Fast and Bulbous / Agenda Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-08-03
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $243.00
Price: $242.98
Review Contemporary Authors: A Bio-bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, ... (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series) / Gale Cengage:
Publication date: 2007-10-04
Dewey code: 809
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Price: $243.00
Review Contemporary Authors: New Revision (Contemporary Authors New Revision Series) / Gale Cengage:
Creator: David Woolley
Publication date: 2007-03-15
Dewey code: 828.508
List Price: $564.95
Price: $229.99
Review The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Four Volume Set (v. 1) / Peter Lang Publishing:Set with Vol. I-IV.
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 809
Price: $34.95
Review Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Part 1 / Kessinger Publishing:1926. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766184684. Vol. 1 of 2. Israfel is not fictionalized biography. Even very small circumstances and particulars about Poe, the people he knew, and his surroundings as described in the text are literal. The aim is to tell the story of Poe's life in more than usual detail of time, place, events and personalities that constitute Poe's life story in proper sequence and truthful relationship. Sample Contents: Two Orphans; Lady Bountiful Claims Israfel; Elmira and the Enchanted Garden; Alias Henri Le Rennet; West Point Interlude; The Mysterious Years; Bottled Fame; Carmine Street; plus much more. Illustrated.
Creator: Thomas Moran
Publication date: 2006-10-20
Dewey code: 895.135109
List Price: $254.00
Price: $254.00
Review Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 (Dictionary of Literary Biography) / Gale Cengage:
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